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Wednesday, 8 October 2014

^‘A little yellow drawing‐room’ painting by W.B.E.. Ranken from Basil Ionides, Colour and Interior Decoration, 1926Exclusively for Saturated Space, Timothy Brittain-Catlin, author of "Bleak Houses: Disappointment and Failure in Architecture", writes about colour as an architectural weapon in the domestic environment."One doesn’t tend to think of interior designers
as being natural terrorists, but in common with artists of other kinds they can
deploy colours as if they were weapons, and they have a rich arsenal of
materials with which to do it. A fully designed modern interior will plant
colours into the house at different scales with different textures, in order to
inflict a sequence of unavoidable colour combinations on the residents.

Architects should learn from this. Architecture
is, so we think, a bigger thing than interior design, mainly because its
elements are meant to be there for ever. This paper described how colour in
architecture can be and has been deployed as a weapon against the unsuspecting."

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